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Bandai Namco dissolves online subsidiary

Bandai Namco dissolves online subsidiary

Japanese publishing giant Bandai Namco is dissolving its online division, the imaginatively named Bandai Namco Online. 

The company said in its announcement that this subsidiary would be shut down and all of its business moved under the Bandai Namco umbrella. There's no word on whether staff are going to be affected by this move. 

Bandai Namco founded Bandai Namco Online back in 2009. As the name would suggest, it was designed to focus on online titles, such as Dragon Ball Z: X KeeperZ, Gundam Evolution and Blue Protocol.

The company said that it was nuking this part of its business and absorbing it due to "recent changes in the environment surrounding the game business, and with the aim of strengthening the business management system of the entire digital business". 

Earlier this year, Bandai Namco announced that it was shutting down Blue Protocol – an MMO project that it had worked with Amazon on – on January 18th, 2025. 


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